It used to be you needed a ginormous hard drive to build and store your digital music collection. But now that most songs exist somewhere in the cloud-on YouTube, one-stop streaming sites like imeem, or blog aggregators like Hype Machine-services have emerged that help you squeeze the Internet for any track you need. Wherever music lives, you can now play, collect, and share it without downloading any audio files. None of these sites is pitch-perfect, and their fidelity isn't as high as your meticulously encoded lossless library. But in these lean times, free jams are sounding better by the minute.
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